TITLE:
Factors of Violence and Harassment at Workplace: Another Reading from the Strategic Analysis
AUTHORS:
Adou Appiah
KEYWORDS:
Violence at Work, Harassment at Work, Strategy, Ivory Coast
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.12 No.5,
May
25,
2022
ABSTRACT: Organizational and societal factors are generally
put forward to explain violence and harassment at workplace. This article
attempts to explore new avenues for explaining violence and harassment at
workplace by emphasizing the role of the actor and the strategies that he can
build for his benefit in the organization. The text is based on a literature
review and a field survey carried out with 22 actors, including sixteen (16) at
the institutional level (Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), Government
Services (SG), trade union organizations (TUO) and six (6) workers in the
formal sector. The article concludes that violence and harassment come from an
actor’s strategy. The aggressiveness that is its expression constitutes a
resource for controlling and obtaining from others what the actor needs.
Violence and harassment are only ways of expressing this aggressiveness.